Cutting-board attachment.



L. B. NICHOLSON.

(HITTING BOARD ATTAGHMENT.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 20. 1909.

Patente Mar. 1, 1910.

LINWOOD B. NICHOLSON, OF DICKERSON. MARYLAND.

CUTTING-BOARD ATTAGHIWENT.

Patented ltllar. 1. 1914].

Serial no. 4.91.018.

" all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, Lmwoon B. NICHOL- SON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dickerson, in the county of Montgomery, State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cutting- Board Attachments; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to paper hangers tools and has special reference to an attachment intended to be applied to a cutting board, the device being in the nature of an attachment for connecting a paper hangers straight edge to a cutting board in such manner that it may be moved into and manipulated in operative position on the board or supported from the board and out of the way when not in use.

The object of the invention is to provide improved means for supporting a st aight edge as above described.

With the above and other objects in view the invention consists in general of certain novel details of construction and combinations of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawing, and specifically set forth in the claims.

In the accompanying drawing, like characters of reference refer to the same parts in different positions and the figure represents a perspective view from the rear of a cutting board equipped with this invention, the straight edge being shown out of use in full lines and in two positions of use in dotted lines.

The numeral indicates a cutting board such as is commonly used by paper hangers and this board is supported in any preferred manner as'by trestles which are not deemed necessary here to be shown. On the rear edge of the board 10 is located a socket 11 and in this socket is rotatably mounted a swiveling base member 12. Secured to this base member is a bar 13 the bar being connected to the base member by means of a hinge 14. Projecting upward from this bar are ears 15 in the form of plates which. are provided with apertures to receive a pin 16. Between these plates is secured a straight edge supporting member 17 and this straight edge supporting member has connected thereto a straight edge 18 provided with the usual cutting slot 19 common in straight edges used for this purpose. Secured upon the rear edge of the cutting board 10 there is a fork member 20 having its upper ends arranged to receive the free end of the straight edge when the same is raised as can clearly be seen from an inspection of the figure.

The manner of using this device can readily be seen from an inspection of the drawing where the device is shown as raised 1 in full lines. It will be noted that with the straight edge in this position the free end rests in the slot while the bar 13 is held in an upright position by reason of the straight edge being held in the fork. It will also be the ears on each member so that these mom bers may be clamped to or removed from the cuttlng board.

The device is made further so that the length of the bar 18 may be adjusted and in order to accomplish this result this bar is provided with portions 23 which are slidable one upon the other and one of these portions is slotted as at 24, the other portion being provided with a thumb screw 25 for the purpose of securing the two sections of the bar 13 in adjusted position. When not in use it is thus possible to remove the invention and fold the same con1- pactly into small space. There has thus been provided a simple and etiicient device of the kind described and for the purpose specified.

It is obvious that minor changes may be made in the form and construction of this invention without departing from the material principles thereof. lit is not therefore necessary to confine the invention to the exact form herein shown and described, but it is wished to include all. such as properly come within the scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, is

1. In a device of the kind described, a straight edge, a clamp adapted to be secured to a cutting board and a hinged bar hold the straight edge and retain the bar in .10

separately pivoted to the clamp and to the an upright position.

straight edge.

In testimony whereof, I aflix my signa- 2. In a device of the kind described, a i ture, in presence of two witnesses.

straight edge, a clamp adapted to be se-Z cured to a cutting board, a hinged bar sep- 1 arately pivoted to the clamp and to the straight edge and means adapted to be attached to the edge of a cutting board toi LINWOOD B. NICHOLSON \Vitnesses M. T. MILLER, GEO. H. CHANDLEE. 

